I realize not everyone is able to visit the hawks, so I hope posting photos and updates is of some comfort. They are living each day as it comes, and they give me hope that things will eventually get better.
Below is Amelia peeking out of the nest. You can see the green leaf buds of this locust tree are starting to open around the nest. Soon, she'll have a curtain of leaves for shade and privacy.
Amelia standing up to look at something in the distance:
Amelia and Christo on the nest:
This is the hawks performing a nest-exchange where Christo comes in to brood the eggs while Amelia gets a break to fly around and get some exercise.
Here is Amelia in a nearby tree stretching her wing. You can also see her left foot stretched out below the wing, as well as her tail fanned out behind it.
Stretching from another angle:
Another pose in the routine:
I wish I could do this with my neck!
How many out there can scratch their cheek with their foot without the assistance of hands?
All pretty now.
Yoga session over, Amelia heads back to the nest.
When she arrives, she brings in a fresh sprig of green locust buds.
Christo gets up off the eggs so Amelia can resume brooding.
Egg-sitting time over, Christo goes on a dinner run. He begins his hunting procedure by perching on a lamp post to get a view of an area populated by rats.
He dives after one, but missed this time.
Christo spends the rest of the evening hunting rats from another lamp post.
As the sun set, it became too dark for me to get decent photos, but Christo was successful catching a rat from this perch.
Dinner served, he went off to roost for the night.
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